Auto Updating Websites

Hi All,

Just wondered what peoples views are on Auto Updating sites?

I'm looking at a small project of a few autoupdating sites, i'm not expecting to earn a load, but would be nice to build steady traffic/income.

Obviously duplicate content is the main problem, but what other issues sway people away from this option.

Any views/advice would be great

Thanks

 

Auto updating websites are not good due to duplicate content, since content is usually taken from RSS feeds.

However, it's OK to have an auto-updating section on one website.

For example, a site on, I don't know, oranges, with content on oranges, and a section containing news about oranges - that shouldn't be a problem.

 

Thanks for the response.

The thought came into my head looking at expenditure vs return.

For example i site i just brought i paid $1,300 and get $170 a month roughly.

2 problems.

1. I can't find many sites that are as established and look at legit as the one i bought.

2. My budget will only let me buy so many of these sites, then i'm going to be twiddling my thumbs untill the income is enough to buy more.

For instance i noticed 10 x Blogs, auto updating, $30.

The only work needed is traffic building, and even adsense should be able to bring in a 20% return across all 10 sites.

Alternatively, selling links at $0.25 x 5 per site, would give over 20%

I'm not saying this is the ideal scenario i'm just saying that i think there's potential there.

If i was looking at each auto update as a $100.00 i'd definately be skeptical, but surely with some traffic building i could earn $10.00 a month passive from these sites.

All the figures above are just examples.

 

The only problem with your scenario is that you're not taking duplicate content into account seriously enough - the best source for steady traffic is search engine traffic - and if you're constantly being put on watch for duplicate content, then your rankings wouldn't be very good.

However, this is what you could do: each time you create a new self-updating blog (no point in buying them unless it's for a REALLY low price - maybe the cost of the domain), add some posts or pages with unique, relevant, and useful content - maybe 10-30 unique articles which you can write yourself, or hire someone else to do them for you. Then, get them indexed.

Once they're all indexed, you can start with the auto-updating business - search engines now know that you have good, relevant, unique content due to the articles you got indexed, so spiders crawl your site frequently and index them.

Then, you'd have to make sure that you add some unique content every once in a while, at least until you reach top rankings for the niches or keywords you're after - then it'd be "set and forget" for some time. Beware, though, you could lose your rankings if you don't add unique content every so often.

 

Are we talking auto-updating blogs/splogs or something slightly different? I have a bunch of auto-updating sites that are like PopURLs or AllTop that run on their own and do fairly well. I think those types of sites have lots of potential if they're very niche focused.

 

Hello,

Thanks for the tips.

Yes, we are talking about self updating content sites, mainly blogs.

I'd be interested to know how your getting on with them.

 

I use an autoposter software on my wordpress blogs to add posts of rewritten PLR content.

I think this works better than just RSS type stuff as it seems to be more genuine in it's nature and the posts are timed to be anything between a few hours and a few days apart. This is a natural way of building a site.

 

I also don't know how AdSense will work on such a site, it may be considered a scraper, a splog and you may be penalized and your AdSense accunt stopped. But I am not very sure about it, I also like the idea, just that I would be very careful about it.

 

autoupdatings sites will get your url delisted from search engines and is not really a good choice

 

How do the search engines treat it if you edit the post slightly before posting? I have just began an autoblog and have the rss posts set to drafts. Then if I like any I go in and spend 1min editing then post. Or are the search engines smarter than that? Just a few words here and there to change it.

 

And on a similar note:

If i had a Autoupdating website, but initially posted 5-10 posts, then 1 post every couple of months, how would google view this.

So google bans any adense accounts with autoupdating content then?

 

Auto posters are a much better option. And WordPress now includes the auto post feature by default: no need for additional software and the formatting is always accurate.